For Masochists Only

Of course I am referring to that pathetic excuse for a debate tonight. The Commission needs to open the debates to at least the more important third-party candidates to keep those two liars honest:

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By the way, Brian Williams, what does being Ivy League-educated have to do with a goddamned thing, let alone have anything to do with debating ability? In fact, the Ivy League schools should disavow both of them. At least one writer notes a good way to assess a debate is to watch it with the sound off the same way my dad used to turn the sound off on the television when Leonard Bernstein conducted those concerts in the Young People's Concerts series. That way one can judge an effective debater just by the body language. I'd add that's just about the only way one can sit through this debate. There was so much bullshit being spewed, it looked like a cow pasture there.

It would appear there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two of them. I'd argue, that for all of the Tea Party rhetoric Romney is spewing these days, he's actually to the left of Obama. That's what is so goddamned infuriating. Obama is the most right-wing president we have ever had in this country, yet he sports a "D" after his name to go along with his grade as president.

Snip from the WSWS review:

The United States is in the grip of the worst social crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with record levels of long-term unemployment, record levels of hunger and homelessness, mass layoffs of workers in the public schools and other essential services, deteriorating public infrastructure and deepening poverty and social misery. Aside from two sentences from Romney—in the course of proposing measures that would make the crisis even worse for working people—there was no reference to this social reality in 90 minutes of debate. The words “poverty” and “unemployment” never crossed Obama’s lips. Neither candidate offered any proposals to alleviate mass suffering, put the unemployed to work or rebuild public services devastated by budget cuts. On the contrary, more than four years into an economic crisis brought on by the greatest financial collapse of the profit system since the 1930s, both candidates pledged their loyalty to Wall Street and hailed capitalism as the greatest boon to mankind.

And that is the problem in a nutshell with our candidates. That is the reason I am withholding my vote for either major party presidential candidate this year. There is nobody to vote FOR.